Yikes, that Vegas game looks like an awful lot of boring.
I can't remember many games I've anticipated being cancelled, I just hate when their release dates get set back. GTA IV was a long wait for me.

Star Fox 2, the holy grail of all unreleased Super Nintendo Games of it's time period, as for Earthbound 64, they should of brought that out too, or at least release it's game-boy advanced version Mother 3 to the US but instead, it was released only in Japan.

At 1/26/13 10:44 AM, VoidForce wrote:
These so much. I don't have enough interest to buy Mother 3 but EarthBound 64 the way it was really intrigued me when I heard about it (long after cancellation).

I'm a huge Mother fanboy, but I think it would have sucked on the N64. The promo video and the screenshots look really fucking bad. And I don't think it would've had the quirky charm that people love about it.

As for Mother, just get a rom and the translation patch. Nintendo supports it, it's not even really illegal.

Raven blade.
Retro had to stop working on the game because nintendo wanted them to work more on metroid prime.
Dinosaur planet is a game that i would've liked to see, but it eventually was turned into StarFox adventures.

At 1/26/13 04:41 PM, TheMajormel wrote:
Raven blade.
Retro had to stop working on the game because nintendo wanted them to work more on metroid prime.
Dinosaur planet is a game that i would've liked to see, but it eventually was turned into StarFox adventures.

Starfox Adventures was a pretty poor game, would Dinosaur Planet be much different if they had such a similar basis?

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At 1/26/13 04:41 PM, TheMajormel wrote:
Raven blade.
Retro had to stop working on the game because nintendo wanted them to work more on metroid prime.
Dinosaur planet is a game that i would've liked to see, but it eventually was turned into StarFox adventures.

Starfox Adventures was a pretty poor game, would Dinosaur Planet be much different if they had such a similar basis?

It was a POOR STARFOX GAME, so in a sense, it would've been much better if seen as a new IP. They changed it to starfox because miyamoto thought the main character looked like Fox.

At 1/26/13 09:38 AM, Luke wrote:
Yikes, that Vegas game looks like an awful lot of boring.

It had a lot more dynamics they didn't show in that demo, such as the fact that it's actually a much more open-world GTA-style game. There were actually gunplay mechanics that weren't shown at all, as well as the typical open-world trimmings like shootouts with cops. The club gameplay was just icing on the cake.

But anyway, we can forget about all of that now since the game is dead.

At 1/26/13 11:19 AM, LemonCrush wrote:
I'm a huge Mother fanboy, but I think it would have sucked on the N64. The promo video and the screenshots look really fucking bad. And I don't think it would've had the quirky charm that people love about it.

Yeah, it looked like a typically chunky N64 game, while on the GBA it's a great-looking game in its own way. If nothing else the character models are incredibly expressive, and that wouldn't have been possible on N64.

As for Mother, just get a rom and the translation patch. Nintendo supports it, it's not even really illegal.

Yes, seconding this for everyone else who posted about Mother 3. It's easy to find and simple to install, just do it guys, it's (not exaggerating) one of the best games of all time and this is the only way you'll ever get to play it.

The fan translation is surprisingly well-done and naturalistic. And it's interesting because it has some language and suggestive things that Nintendo probably would have removed during localization to ensure an E rating. Makes me wonder what might have been censored out of EarthBound during the translation process.

At 1/26/13 11:28 PM, Dr-Worm wrote:
Yeah, it looked like a typically chunky N64 game, while on the GBA it's a great-looking game in its own way. If nothing else the character models are incredibly expressive, and that wouldn't have been possible on N64.

Yeah, it wasn't right that N64. Personally, I think it looked worse than Ocarina of Time. It just looked aweful.

Yes, seconding this for everyone else who posted about Mother 3. It's easy to find and simple to install, just do it guys, it's (not exaggerating) one of the best games of all time and this is the only way you'll ever get to play it.

The fan translation is surprisingly well-done and naturalistic. And it's interesting because it has some language and suggestive things that Nintendo probably would have removed during localization to ensure an E rating. Makes me wonder what might have been censored out of EarthBound during the translation process.

There are a couple "damn"s in there.

For anyone worried about the legal stuff, the translation team openly stated to Nintendo (via emails, etc) and fans, that if Nintendo had even so much as mentioned an issue with the translation, they would end the project. And Nintendo, even to this day, have said nothing.

At 1/25/13 09:11 PM, T3XT wrote:
I was disappointed when This Is Vegas was cancelled, as was I when Brutal Legend was confirmed not to have a sequel.

Personally I felt Brutal Legend wrapped up nicely (unlike Psychonauts...) so I wasn't too desperate for a sequel for the time being. Something like Oddworld on the other hand, there were loads of cancelled games and I would have bought every single one of them. Who knows, maybe they will see the light of day again but for now it's just remakes and ports for the franchise.